Stephanorhinus
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Stephanorhinus is an extinct genus of two-horned rhinoceros native to Eurasia and North Africa that lived from the Late Pliocene until their extinction in the Late Pleistocene. Species of Stephanorhinus were the predominant and often only species of rhinoceros in much of temperate Eurasia, especially Europe, for most of the Pleistocene. The last two species of Stephanorhinus – Merck's rhinoceros (S. kirchbergensis) and the narrow-nosed rhinoceros (S. hemitoechus) – went extinct during the latter half of the last glacial period.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Stephanorhinus is referenced by 236 other articles, and connects out to rhinoceros, Tapiroidea and odd-toed ungulate.
It is catalogued under topics including Dicerorhinini, Fossil taxa described in 1942 and Pleistocene genus extinctions.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- rhinoceros
- Image
- Stephanorhinus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stephanorhinus
- taxon name
- Stephanorhinus
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 9700000-00
- end time
- 40000-00-0
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Stephanorhinus is an extinct genus of two-horned rhinoceros native to Eurasia and North Africa that lived from the Late Pliocene until their extinction in the Late Pleistocene. Species of Stephanorhinus were the predominant and often only species of rhinoceros in much of temperate Eurasia, especially Europe, for most of the Pleistocene. The last two species of Stephanorhinus – Merck's rhinoceros (S. kirchbergensis) and the narrow-nosed rhinoceros (S. hemitoechus) – went extinct during the latter half of the last glacial period.
== Etymology == The first part of the name, Stephano-, honours Stephen I, the first king of Hungary. (The genus name was coined by Kretzoi, a Hungarian.) The second part is from (Greek for "nose"), a typical suffix of rhinoceros genus names.
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